Re: Installing under 512 MB of storage

Andrea Pappacoda wrote:

>> An SSD in an M.2 to IDE adapter would probably be a good and fairly 
>> inexpensive upgrade if they're like to see many updates..
> 
> These are small thin clients which have been donated from a bank to the 
> local hacklab I partecipate in, and us buying a bunch of adapters and 
> storage drives is less ideal than having stuff break.
> 
> My idea with them is to organize a workshop showing off what one can 
> achieve with OpenBSD base and really poor hardware, ending with giving 
> the PCs away to people who participate.
I don't think running new software on such old machines is viable in 
practice.

If I needed to use 20 PCs with tight storage I would build up a budget 
storage server and mount all non boot-critical filesystems over NFS. You 
can have a "/" fylesystem taking less than 200 MB and then offload /var, 
/usr etc to the server.

The downside is once the machine is removed from your lab it is useless.